A flashback details the Absolute Universe Pamela Isley’s life and how her mother’s illness inspired her to become a scientist. Her mother nicknamed her “Ivy” because of her habit of climbing on ...

A research team describes how they engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid. The ability to synthesize artificial chains of TNA, ...

CBSE Class 11 Biological Classification Important MCQs: Practise important MCQs from Chapter 2 Biological Classification of Class 11 Biology. These chapter-wise MCQs are important for the upcoming ...

Superheroes don’t exist in the real world (or at least that’s what the government keeps telling us) but these microorganisms are pretty close to being actual superheroes. They don’t breathe, they’ve ...

Marshes, wetlands, lakes and rice fields are oxygen-poor environments. Microbes that make methane thrive here. They feed on decaying plants and release methane in the process. It's a great situation ...

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1 Chemistry, Biology and Health Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Dakota Mines, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States 2 Biomedical Engineering Program, University of South Dakota ...

If you think carbon dioxide is the most powerful greenhouse gas, think again. When it comes to heating the Earth, methane is 80 times more effective than CO2 and is responsible for 30% of the total ...

Adding to a “health sciences district” taking shape on the southwest side of campus, UC Irvine announced it will build a new 200,0000-square-foot facility for collaborative research on cancer, ...

In 1977 Carl Woese identified a “primary kingdom” of life which he termed Archaebacteria (Woese and Fox, 1977), and over the intervening decades, the distinctiveness of these organisms (now known as ...

During ribosome synthesis, ribosomal RNA is modified through the formation of many pseudouridines and methylations which contribute to ribosome function across all domains of life. In archaea and ...